Brooks wrote:Have you thought about terrorism?
AJ wrote:I had one, but never bothered trying it because other bits of society which work for the majority of people don't work for me and that depressed me more. I think it might be too late now, it was all lined up with the sentiments that caused Brexit and got Corbyn elected and stuff.JonB wrote:Everything is shit. It doesn't need to be, and only is because it serves the interests of a minority of the population. There's no immediate solution.
Brooks wrote:Have you thought about terrorism?
equinox_code wrote:I’m surprised there’s never any talk of mass rent strikes or anything like that. It seems so obvious a thing not to be labouring over.
Diluted Dante wrote:Go on?AJ wrote:I had one, but never bothered trying it because other bits of society which work for the majority of people don't work for me and that depressed me more. I think it might be too late now, it was all lined up with the sentiments that caused Brexit and got Corbyn elected and stuff.JonB wrote:Everything is shit. It doesn't need to be, and only is because it serves the interests of a minority of the population. There's no immediate solution.
Diluted Dante wrote:The solution.
I've decided that by the time we're old we'll either be in a Fascist dystopia and we'll all be worked to death in concentration camps, or there'll be a highly progressive social programme, including a universal basic income. The first is far more likely, but either way a lack of savings and pension won't be a problem.equinox_code wrote:What’s actually going to happen to people like us when we’re old? Through no fault of our own we’ll have no savings, no pension, no home, no capital, no cheap rental contract etc etc.
Diluted Dante wrote:The solution.
monkey wrote:Yeah I genuinely think it’s going to be hell on Earth or utopia in 30-40 years. The current system can’t chug along much longer.
AJ wrote:Use the flowering social media scene and swelling discontent to take over the country, continent or world with a manifesto which is actually a thinly disguised belief system based on the betterment of everyone and treating people better on the whole. Or something to that extent. Like I said, probably too late now.The solution.
AJ wrote:monkey wrote:Yeah I genuinely think it’s going to be hell on Earth or utopia in 30-40 years. The current system can’t chug along much longer.
I think you'll be surprised how long people can keep it wobbling along. I'd probably give it at least a century more. It'll be slowly getting worse the whole time, of course.
Diluted Dante wrote:No, I mean you described Momentum.
Yossarian wrote:Nah, climate catastrophe will hit in far less time than that.AJ wrote:I think you'll be surprised how long people can keep it wobbling along. I'd probably give it at least a century more. It'll be slowly getting worse the whole time, of course.monkey wrote:Yeah I genuinely think it’s going to be hell on Earth or utopia in 30-40 years. The current system can’t chug along much longer.
AJ wrote:Oh, it's a thing. They don't look like they know what they're doing if it's the same as what I was thinking.Diluted Dante wrote:No, I mean you described Momentum.
Yossarian wrote:Displaced populations, ocean acidification, farmland turning into desert. The actual roasting of all life on earth might take a little longer, but food shortages and wars are much sooner.
Bob wrote:Just go to Glasgow mate if that doesn’t cheer you up nothing will
Plus increased automation through AI and robotics, displacement and destruction of jobs through the internet, increased virtualisation of money, collapse of the Western political system. This is all happening now and it’s speeding up.Yossarian wrote:AJ wrote:monkey wrote:Yeah I genuinely think it’s going to be hell on Earth or utopia in 30-40 years. The current system can’t chug along much longer.
I think you'll be surprised how long people can keep it wobbling along. I'd probably give it at least a century more. It'll be slowly getting worse the whole time, of course.
Nah, climate catastrophe will hit in far less time than that.
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